Where: New Mexico (36.1° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 43.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arroyo Penasco Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• The Arroyo Penasco Fm. is underlain unconformable by Precambrian rocks and overlain unconformably by Pennsylvanian rocks. The fossils in this collection were found 110-130 ft. above the Precambrian rock.

Environment/lithology:

Collection methods: chemical, peel or thin section, sieve

Primary reference: A. K. A. Armstrong. 1967. Biostratigraphy and Carbonate Facies of the Mississippian Arroyo Penasco Formation, North - Central New Mexico. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir (20)22-53 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson/P. Wagner]more details

PaleoDB collection 12917: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 02.01.2002

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